Press Releases

OUTAGE OF NKULA A & B POWER STATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKS

END OF OUTAGE OF NKULA A & B POWER STATIONS Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that it has concluded maintenance works that it was undertaking at Nkula B, effectively ending outage of both Nkula A and B power stations. Nkula B dislodged Intake Screens have been replaced successfully. Similarly, the inspection...

MAINTENANCE WORKS AT TEDZANI POWER STATION

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to inform its Stakeholders and the general public that the Company will carry out maintenance works at its Tedzani Hydro Power Station on 7th January 2024 from 06:00am to 04:00pm. The works will involve retrieving of a trash rake bucket and inspection of intake screens at the Power Station’s intake dam. The trash...

LAUNCH OF 10 MW SALIMA SOLAR POWER PROJECT

HARNESSING THE SUN – DIVERSIFYING POWER SOURCES Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to inform all its stakeholders and the general public that the company will hold a ground breaking ceremony of the 10 Megawatt Salima Solar Power Project on Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at Nanjoka in Salima district. The ceremony will be presided over by the Minister...

OUTAGE OF NKULA A AND B POWER STATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE WORKS

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that there will be an outage of Nkula A and B from Saturday, 21st October 2023, 07h00 to Sunday, 22 October 2023, 17h00 to replace Nkula B dislodged Intake Screens. The work will require complete shutdown of both Nkula A and B and lowering of the...

REDUCED POWER GENERATION DUE TO MAJOR MAINTENANCE WORKS AT TEDZANI POWER STATION

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the public that it will carry out major maintenance works at Tedzani Power Station from Saturday 26th to Monday 28th August 2023. The works will involve installation of new fine screens and retrieving of a trashrake bucket at the power station’s intake. Two Tedzani fine screens were dislodged...

UPDATE ON POWER GENERATION

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to update all stakeholders and the public on power generation status after cyclone Freddy. As of 28 March 2023, we have managed to stabilize the generation system with all the machines at Nkula and Tedzani Power Stations now available. We had difficulties running all Tedzani III and Nkula A machines because of excessive...

EMERGENCY OUTAGE OF TEDZANI POWER STATION ON SUNDAY 5TH FEBRUARY 2023

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to notify all stakeholders and the general public that the company has planned a 4-hour outage of Tedzani Power Station on Sunday 5 February 2023 from 08h00 to 12h00 to facilitate removal of excessive trash that has clogged coarse screens. The work will require complete shutdown of Tedzani Power Stations (121.1MW) and partial...

OUTAGE OF NKULA A AND B ON SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2022 AND EVERY SUNDAY IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2022

Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) wishes to inform all stakeholders and the general public that there will be outages of Nkula A and B on every Sunday beginning 25th September until 30th October 2022 for 10 hours on each Sunday starting from 7:00am to 5:00pm, to allow for installation of new fine screens. This follows the findings by...

MAINTENANCE WORKS AT TEDZANI IV POWER PLANT

The Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) is informing all its stakeholders and the general public that it will carry out planned contractual maintenance works at its Tedzani IV Power Plant from Monday, 12 September 2022 to Monday, 26 September 2022. During this period, the contractor for the Tedzani IV Power Plant, CALIK ENERJI, will be rectifying all outstanding...

MAINTENANCE WORKS AT NKULA POWER STATION

The Electricity Generation Company (Malawi) Limited (EGENCO) is informing all stakeholders and the general public that it will carry out emergency maintenance works at its Nkula Power Station on Sunday, 4 September 2022, from 7 o’clock in the morning to 5 o’clock in the evening. The works will involve installation of new fine trash screens. EGENCO’s divers discovered the...